zeigen

Meaning

  1. (weak) to show, make see
  2. (transitive, weak) to show, make see
  3. (Internet, reflexive, transitive, weak) to show, make see
  4. (transitive, weak) to show, make see
  5. (weak) to show, make see
  6. (weak) to show, make see
  7. (reflexive, weak) to appear, become apparent, come out, turn out, show up, to be manifested

Frequency

A1
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

zeige

Aargau

Aargau

zeige

St. Gallen

St. Gallen

zeige

Zug

Zug

zeige

Bern

Bern

zeige

Zürich

Zürich

zeigä

Bern

Bern

zeigä

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

zeige

Lucerne

Lucerne

zeige

Solothurn

Solothurn

zeige

Graubünden

Graubünden

zeiga

Obwalden

Obwalden

zäigä

Fribourg

Fribourg

zeige

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

zeege

Bern

Bern

zege

St. Gallen

St. Gallen

zaga

St. Gallen

St. Gallen

zeiga

Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen

zeigä

Aargau

Aargau

zeigä

Schwyz

Schwyz

zeige

Thurgau

Thurgau

zeigä

Thurgau

Thurgau

zeige

Valais

Valais

zeigu

Bern

Bern

zeegä

Basel-Stadt

Basel-Stadt

zaigä

Basel-Stadt

Basel-Stadt

zäige

Basel-Stadt

Basel-Stadt

zaige

Basel-Stadt

Basel-Stadt

zeige

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈt͡saɪ̯ɡən/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German zeigen, from Old High German zeigōn, intensive of zīhan, whence modern zeihen (“to blame”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-, whence also Zeichen, English teach. In Modern German, zeigen absorbed the synonymous but entirely unrelated Middle High German zöugen (cognate with Gothic ataugjan); therefore the spellings zäugen, zeugen also occurred.

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